| Description | 3rd ed. by K. Gerits L. Englisch R. Bruckmann
If you're Atari ST coder, this is absolutely must read. Every Atari ST subsystem is described on hardware and software level. Book contains also BIOS/GEMDOS/XBIOS/Line A/AES/VDI reference which is great help while coding, m68k processor architecture and operation, m68k instruction set/addressing modes, listing of important system vectors. Nearly everything you should know. With Atari Compendium and ST/TT Profibuch (which was never translated from german) ST Internals is one of the best hardware/software references for Atari ST range of computers.
At the end of the book there is disassembled system startup sequence. This is updated revision, contains information about blitter which was missing in previous editions. |